The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.